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I can't tell from here but it sounds fishy to me. Try resetting the controller to the factory settings and reprogram it. It should work.

If your old Hunter SRC controller won't show the year 2012, it doesn't mean end times have arrived. What it does mean is that it is one of the older versions that failed to have an extended calendar database. Since these clocks only have the years 1996-2011 in the database, you have to pick a year where the days of the month line up properly with the days of the week. What makes this difficult is leap years, but for those people in northern climates, you can put off worrying about this until the month of March or April, at which time you set the year to 2001, which keeps you in good stead for the next three years.

Here is a short list of settings for the SRC. The left-hand number is the actual year. The right-hand number is the year you set the clock for

I had been given to understand this was the reason the SRC was discontinued, but that doesn't take into account that the last ones delivered had a calendar extending to 2045 - at any rate, a controller that lasts longer than the manufacturer planned on, is not really a bad thing.

Well, thanks, this was a lifesaver. Trying to figure out why my sprinkler watered on the wrong day today. We've had alot of rain in N. Texas this spring, so just now putting it on for the season to auto, rather than a manual run here and there. People who say on other forums that the year doesn't matter on days of week watering are WRONG, because the year is the only way the system knows what day of the week it is. Mine thinks today is W because I'm forever stuck in 2011. So your handy chart is a lifesaver. BUT, this controller aggravates me for other reasons as well, like when I'm trying to run a station manually (like 7 or , I set the time, and it resets to station 1 when I set it back to run! I've followed the directions to a "T" and yet 90% of the time it does this to me. The only workaround I've found is to run "all stations manually" and then set 1-6 for 0 and let 7 or 8 or whatever I"m testing cycle thru. VERY TIME CONSUMING, esp when I have a repair tech waitinng for me to turn on the right station. Grrrr Anyone know the fix to this? Or, maybe, how much a replacement unit will cost? Thanks!!

Sorry, trying to run section 7 or 8 not smiley face. If I do RUN MANUAL STATION, it lets me arrow advance to the station, hit enter, and then I can adjust the time. I should just then spin the dial back to RUN and it will run that one station only. Before I can spin it though or AS I'm spinning it, it turns back to 1, effectively never letting me test just one station. Am I doing something wrong??